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34 Cards in this Set
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What is development? |
The pattern of movement of change that begins at conception and continues through the human life span. |
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What are the 3 main domains of development? |
1. Physical 2. Cognitive 3. Psychosocial |
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Define Continuity |
The relationship between the two, whatever they may be. |
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Define Change. |
Change is development, but to us it is an increasing complexity of organization and without such change there is no development |
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What are the 3 processes in deveopment? |
1. biological 2. cognitive 3. socioemotional |
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What are three developmental phases in the lifespan? |
1. stability 2. growth 3. aging |
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Define developmental stability. |
Traits and characteristics; have the capacity for change? |
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Define developmental growth. |
Physical changes that occur from conception to death. |
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Define developmental aging. |
Range of positive and negative changes on the 3 domains of development (physical, cognitive, and psychosocial) |
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Define age grade. |
Socially defined age group. Marked with rites of passage. (sweet 16?) |
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Define age norms. |
behavioral expectations by age |
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Ethnicity and SES affect the...... |
Conceptualization of the lifespan. (varying age norms, etc.) |
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Define normative age-graded influences |
Biological, sociocultural, and environmental processes affecting a certain age group |
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Define normative history-graded influences` |
Historical events that affect a particular generation. |
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Define nonnormative life events |
Life events specific to an individual. |
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Approx Periods of Life for: Prenatal Infancy Preschool Period Middle Childhood Adolescence Early Adulthood Middle Adulthood Late Adulthood |
Prenatal: Conception to Birth Infancy: 0-2yrs Preschool Period: 2-5/6 Middle Childhood: 6-12 Adolescence: 12-20 Early Adulthood:20-40 Middle Adulthood: 40-65 Late Adulthood: 65+ |
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What is the average life expectancy? |
78 Years
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Women generally live longer than men. T/F? |
True |
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Define nature vs nurture. |
Influences of hereditary vs influences of environment |
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Define Bronfenbrenner's Bioecological Model |
Microsystem, Mesosystem, Exosystem, Macrosystem, Chronosystem. |
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Define Microsystem |
Immediate environment (Family, School, Peers) |
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Define mesosystem. |
Linkage between Microsystems. |
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Define Exosystem |
Linkages of social systems. (Neighbors, Friends of family, mass media) |
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Define Macrosystem |
Larger cultural context (attitudes and ideologies of the culture) |
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Define Chronosystem |
Changes that occur in a time frame (Time since life events.) |
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Bioecological Model limitations |
1. Not enough attention to biological factors 2. Little emphasis on cognitive factors |
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3 goals of studying the lifespan |
1. description 2. explanation 3. optimization |
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The founder of developmental psychology |
Stanley Hall -> Developed the QUESTIONNAIRE |
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Define theory |
A set of concepts designed to explain phenomena |
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The scientific method |
1. Theory 2. Hypothesis 3. observation 4. data collection
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3 features of true experiments |
1. Random assignment 2. Manipulation of independent variable 3. experimental control |
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Cross-sectional study |
Studying 2 different age groups or cohorts. immediate study. |
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longitudinal study |
cohort studied over time. |
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sequential study |
study different cohorts over several periods of time (mix of cross-sectional and longitudinal) |
